Language and Landscape

From The Guardian, 27 February, 2015: "The word-hoard: Robert Macfarlane on rewilding our language of landscape"

"Landmarks, the book that has arisen from my own years of word work, is a celebration and defence of land language. Its fascination is with the mutual relations of place, word and spirit: how we landmark, and how we are landmarked in turn. Each of the nine glossaries is matched with a chapter exploring the work of those writers who have used words exactly and exactingly when describing specific places".

Today I enjoyed an afternoon of performances of William Barnes' works at Max Gate, Dorchester -both Barnes and Hardy provide perfect examples of "land language". Congratulations to all concerned.